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How to change the people's behavior: make it fun!
This was the first of a series of experiments for a VW brand campaign.
Management and Organizations
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Around the world, workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers
“Lockdown provided an opportunity to reflect – and help me realise what I want from work. I want a job that suits my life and means I’m not tied to a desk all day, every day. And if I don’t feel happy, I can just quit. There are more
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The answer is: we generated more needs
(in Jeopardy fashion) Why do we work so damn much? As we approach 2030, how did Keynes do? Keynes’ predictions about capital growth, technology advancement and productivity were clearly wrong. “He massively underestimated the speed of advances in those areas,” said Suzman. We passed the thresholds of capital growth and
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Paid vacation days per year per country
Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research
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We witnessed the lynching of a black man
Note: For some reason (probably human error, that is, me) this entry did not post at the determined time, which was weeks ago now. I'm not saying anything new, but I am speaking my mind. I'm sure I will come back to this in later posts.
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Maintaining professionalism in the age of black death
Please be mindful of what our black colleagues are going through. Shenequa Golding's Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot is a good place to start to nurture your empathy. Here are a few excerpts: I don’t know who decided that being professional
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A friendly reminder
We're not working from home. We're at home in the middle of a crisis trying to get work done. Look after yourself... and others.
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Bailiwick
We are in the midst of much change. And, as I mentioned last week, it is way too early to call anything the "new normal".Our new circumstances are causing many to be anxious. Anxiety appears when we expect that what we hold dear might disappear or that
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It's too early to call it "the new normal"
We're at the end of Week 3. We made it through another week! I say "made it through" because there is nothing usual about these times. Almost 10 million people filed unemployment clams in the last two weeks. 24% of SMEs have shut down temporarily in
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How can management theories guide life decisions?
On the last day of class, Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, asks his students to turn those theoretical lenses on themselves to find cogent answers to three questions: Second, how can I be sure that my relationships with my spouse and my family become an enduring source of
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Clayton Christensen 1952-2020
Clayton Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School, is best known for his theory of disruptive innovation, in which he warns large, established companies of the danger of becoming too good at what they do best. People who knew him personally speak of a fine human being. RIP You
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A subtler, more intangible, but vital kind of moral consensus: Comity
The basic humanity of the opposition is not forgotten; civility is not abandoned; the sense that a community life must be carried on after the acerbic issues of the moment have been fought over and won is seldom very far out of mind; an awareness that the opposition will someday